What does it mean to be engaged or to be involved in the ecclesia?

 

En‧gage:

  • [intransitive always + preposition] to be doing or to become involved in an activity engage in/on/upon > If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
  • [transitive] to attract someone’s attention and keep them interestedengage somebody’s interest/attention
  • [transitive] to attract someone’s attention and keep them interestedengage somebody’s interest/attention
in the sense of participate in
Definition
to take part or participate > Synonyms:
participate in 
join in  
embark on  
enter into  
become involved in 
set about  
partake of 

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Engagement or involvement

When we talk about being committed or involved here, we are committed to something in mind or cooperating or cooperating.

If a person is expected to be « engaged » or « engaged », that person is expected to actively participate in or be immersed in a particular activity, event, or relationship.

It means that you can be found for something and want to participate in it without being rude. Before one is committed, there must be an interest in the matter and it is important to join a specific group, which one wants to join.

The person concerned is interested in the case and even wants to invest there. He or she wants to contribute (give – be conducive to) and participate.

To become a member of an ecclesia, it is expected that one will go for the same faith and even wish to commit oneself to it. The tasks or situations that are available are then prepared not to shy away from.

Being involved or committed requires giving time, energy and effort to contribute to or make a difference in a situation and in the case of an ecclesia or religious community, contributing constructively to connecting with that religious group in order to build it and expand.

Being involved also means caring, helping, providing services or offering. This also includes offering others a helpful hand and helping them move forward, helping someone get started or getting them going. This can be done with advice or provided with advice and assistance. Furthermore, it keeps a ready stand for support and to be ready as support for others such as undercarrier, protector and right hand.

It also means being present, attentive and responsive in interactions with others and willing to pave the way for others or help them out of need. This can even go as far as helping others out of the brine or even pulling out of a deep swamp. It may happen several times that someone will have to be taken in tow, even though it may be that one will have to walk the soles of one’s shoes.

Overall, commitment or being involved means a sense of commitment, connection, and contribution to a common goal.

Involvement or commitment in the ecclesia

Involvement or commitment in a church community means actively participating in the various aspects of the life and ministry of the church. This can include attending worship services and prayer meetings, volunteering for service opportunities, participating in small groups, supporting outreach and mission efforts, and contributing financially to the work of the church.

It is a willingness to work together in connection or with feeling to shape and support faith. The involvement in the ecclesia brings with it a feeling of solidarity among the alliance, where all members want to focus on deepening and spreading the Word of God. In solidarity, they want to move together with the same party spirit or esprit de corps.

Engagement also includes building relationships with other members of the church, providing support and encouragement to each other, and seeking to live up to the values and teachings of faith in everyday life.

Being involved in a church community means that people want to be accomplices and parties to a fact that was started many centuries ago and must be continued. As fellow oaths, one adheres to living up to the brotherhood and, as a keeper of the faith, to further proclaim that faith. Such involvement often leads to a feeling of connection, purpose and spiritual growth.

 

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  2. The non-traditional church born from spiritual life
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  4. Housechurch is about a new way of life
  5. Whether or not you feel at home in a church
  6. What does it mean to belong to a church community
  7. Our house church is an organic church
  8. The intentions of our Brussels ecclesia
  9. Work in the family home and garden

 

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  28. Being asked about Tithing
  29. How to become a Christadelphian

Necessary formalities for the trek

plannen van een reis of trektocht - planning of a voyage or trekking - passport on map, paspoort op landkaart - photo camera on map - fototoestel op landkaart
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Forming an ecclesia is, as it were, like going on a trek or pilgrimage Before an ecclesia can be formed, a lot has to be done, first and foremost, people must be found who want to go out together on a kind of great voyage of discovery or expedition, which can be compared to a great pilgrimage, first and foremost, where people have resolved to use their minds to achieve a certain spiritual attitude in order to come closer to the Divine creator.

For such a pilgrimage to succeed, a lot of preparatory work is necessary. For example, everything must be planned carefully in advance and ensure that one has the right formalities to cross the various countries (or zones).

One of the necessities of being able to enter countries is a valid ID, so one may also put it for the pilgrimage that candidates for an ecclesia must be able to present, one cannot be in it, or not a full member without having registered as a member of the community or of the country to be ‘stayed’.

paspoorten - passports
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When choosing a passport, it is important that one can present the right nationality. Likewise, if one wants to become a member of a religious community, one must have selected the right religious group.

Also, one must have the right plunge or proper attire for the trek, the hole is not to just put on a grey Maoist suit, and uniform sausage may be preferred in the world, but this does not hold true for this important assignment.

Vaticaan - basiliek - Vatican cathedral
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One can call oneself « Christian », but that covers such a great charge that it may be better to specify more For the church community of Brothers in Christ one certainly cannot be a follower of that church that has a large majority in front when they say « Christians » When one hears talk about « Christians » on television or on popular media channels one usually talks about a Catholic church, and even usually the Roman Catholic Church affiliated with the Vatican.

Participants in our trek are expected to distance themselves precisely from those doctrines of this Roman Catholic Church, for there is no place in the Brethren in Christ for a worship of a three-headed god or the so-called Holy Trinity.

pilgrimage - pelgrimstocht - rondgang rond de zwarte steen in Mecca - Islam
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The pilgrimage we think of is not a pilgrimage to Mecca either The Islamists may worship the True God, but their system of God-experience is not what we seek.

The purpose of the pilgrimage is that all participants look for The One True God, who is above all gods, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah, the God of Hosts, and that they also look for the extent to which they can use the One True God can best serve.

 

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Preceding

  1. What is a Pilgrimage?
  2. Encouraging eachother
  3. Prayer at the beginning of our pilgrimage
  4. Beginning of a Pilgrimage
  5. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #1 Twentieth Century Man and the Pilgrimage Process
  6. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #2 Words of God for life
  7. God’s Words for the Pilgrimage #3 A road on a global scale littered with obstacles
  8. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #1 Embarking on an important journey
  9. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #2 Not a cheap or easy flight but a life journey
  10. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #3 Availability, encounters and exposure to change
  11. A pilgrimage not exactly without obstacles or obstacles #4 A good plan or guide to discover the Source of life